I'd like to make an NSTableView highlight its selected rows as if one was right-clicked.
When a selected row is right-clicked (and if the table view implements a menu), the view draws a rectangle at the perimeter of each block of selected rows. This is the default behaviour. See below:
I want the table to do that outside of the context of a right-click. FYI, this is to implement a custom dragging Destination Feedback Style to make clear that some action will be applied on the selected rows.
I can programmatically select rows, but not make them highlight in this way.
Still, Appkit must have some method for that since it does it upon right-click.
I could find a solution involving subclassing NSTableView or NSTableRowView, but there may be a simple solution.
Thanks.
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The TableView still leaves a lot to be desired. Does anyone have a more complex example of a TableView that you would like to share? Here's what I'm missing:
Insert and Delete row:
Possible solutions:
press TAB on the last cell and new row gets inserted automatically
right mouse button -> context menu -> insert line (or delete line)
a table footer with table navigation and insert/delete buttons (like MS Access)
keyboard shortcut
...
Insert and Delete should be either at the current row position or at the bottom of the table. Of course the new row should be highlighted.
Copying / Duplication of rows inside the TableView
Copy selected cells to the clipboard
(solution exists: copy multiple cells to clipboard, paste into table is missing)
Insert a row with default values
Type to Edit: I don't want to have to doubleclick on a cell first in order to edit it. When you type on a cell, the table should automatically go into edit mode.
Navigation options like e. g. TAB = cell in next column, ENTER = cell in next row
Filtering should be possible via components inside the tableview, not via components (TextField etc) outside of it. A filter indicator (like the sort indicator) would be nice.
Changing the visibility of columns should be convenient, not via multiple clicks of the tableview menu button (for every column you have to click the menu button separately to show the available columns). The tableview menu button should be customizable
(solutions exist with reflection and without reflection)
Row and column headers should be possible
Validation of cells, so that when you are in edit mode and enter text instead of digits into a numeric cell you get the option to cancel the edit mode and revert to the default value
A (fixed) table footer which could e. g. show the sum for each column would be nice
Freezing of columns (there's already a Jira task for this)
Some of these were covered partially years ago from what I've seen. But I couldn't get a clear How-To impression and maybe things have changed with JavaFX8.
In case someone likes to contribute to any of these mentioned features, please share your thoughts. Thank you very much.
I've encountered the same problem as this one:
This one.
It has never been answered so far. In two words:
When you place a NSPopUpButtonCell in a NSTableView, the popUp opens before the selection in the tableView has changed.
If the menu of the popUp relies on the selection of a row of the tableView, it will be updated too late.
Solution 1: differ the opening of the popUp with a block which calls [super] a few nanoseconds later. But I don't know which method I must override.
Solution 2: use other bindings that I'm currently using (the popUp contains the NSSet of the entity selected in the table, I'm using a different controller, not the table's one, and I bind its content set to myTable.selection.theSet.
Is there something else I could do? Thanks !
Yes, if you use a view-based tableView, you can bind the popUp through the cellView it’s inside (like the other table objects you bind in this mode), and so it’s completely unambiguous and doesn’t depend on the selection.
In view-based mode, each cell in each row have is assigned an ‘objectValue’ from your original data, so you can bind directly to it, like ‘objectValue.popUpContents’.
I'm having a QTableWidget with 9000 data. I can search data from the table, like, if I search for '10', whole data starting with '10' will be displayed.
Now I need to highlight the first row, since it shows the accurate search result.
I'm using:
ui->tableWidget->setSelectionBehavior(QAbstractItemView::SelectRows);
for highlighting the selected row.
How can I highlight the first row of table?
I am not sure I am clear of why you need to set selection behavior unless you are planning for the user to be able to do the selection by clicking on the cells. And if you want that to be the default behavior then just set this as a property of the tableWidget when you use the QT designer.
But you can certainly do:
ui->tableWidget->selectRow(0);
That will highlight the row.
I am using Advanced DataGrid of Flex 3 with hierarchical data. The itemRenderer is a TextInput which accepts numbers. When I enter data into the given field and click the corresponding expand tree icon for the row, I want the amount entered in tree node should get cascaded to its child rows. But I found the nature of advanced DataGrid erroneous.
When I enter data and click on tree icon, the data is not populated in child windows unless i wont take the focus out from the editing control.
I tried using itemEditEnd, itemFocusOut etc but of no use. I have to explicitly click on any of the other columns and then expand tree.
Am I making any mistake anywhere?
I found solution to my problem, its bit ugly but it works. I had to register two events for textinput as follows
addEventListener(FocusEvent.MOUSE_FOCUS_CHANGE, allocateAmount);
addEventListener(FocusEvent.KEY_FOCUS_CHANGE, allocateAmount);
and then by using IViewCursor I could able to update data.
I'm looking for a DataGrid with expandable rows implementation in Flex. I don't want to use Advanced DataGrid control because it's too slow and too complex.
The desired behavior is like this: when you click a row, a panel opens between the rows with some details and the rest of the rows are moved down, and when you click again the panel is closed and the rows are back to normal. If you click the other row, the one that was expanded collapses and the row you clicked is expanded.
You'll probably need to use a custom ItemEditor that responds to clicks and expands itself.
The variableRowHeight property may need to be set to true as well.
The behavior you are describing sounds an awful lot like an Accordion component, though that doesn't quite sound like what you are looking for. Another approach would be to use a List component with a custom itemRenderer that is expanded when in the selected (clicked) state, and collapsed when not selected.
We extended Flex Datagrid component and used custom item renderer for this. We actually expand one cell and resize it to cover all other cells in the same row. While this may be not the easiest solution it works and the Datagrid is very fast.